Ascend: Airline safety worsened in 2010

The UK-based company Ascend, an airline industry data
provider, has recently published it's annual airline safety
report. The results were not very favorable, most
aspects worsened compared to the previous year. Still, the
overall trend is very optimistic in long-term. Let's have a
look at the results in detail.

More fatal accidents in 2010

The report focuses on fatal accidents. A slight increase
has been recorded, compared to year 2009. The main metrics,
fatal accident rate, indicates the probability of experiencing an in-air
accident leading to death. In the year 2010, one fatal
accident happened in about 1.3 million flights.
Compared to 2009, the value worsened a bit. It was one
per 1.5 million flights. The total number of fatal
accidents increased by 22% to 28 in 2010.

828 people died last year

About 4 percent more people were killed in
an commercial airline accident last year, compared to 2009. A total of
828 passengers and crew members lost their
lives in 2010. To compare, it was 731 in 2009.
472 found death in four largest accidents in 2010.

Overall trend is improving rapidly

As cautionary as the latest numbers may seem, the overall
trend didn't stop improving. See the chart
below. The trend is undoubtedly very positive. If we
compare the current decade to 1990s, we can see a vast
improvement of the fatal accident rate. The average rate went down more
than one per 700,000 flights.

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